From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/59662 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Strange Font problem Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:46:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20100616011939.GA3195@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276667128 17212 80.91.229.12 (16 Jun 2010 05:45:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:45:28 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 16 07:45:27 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OOlRG-0003NR-L4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFC5C9ADD; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id gCeBPJES1Lyc; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A21C9AAA; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEEBC9AAA for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id r3KFiIQBu34T for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4364C9A70 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:45:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM [172.27.169.95] (Mismatch [66.194.95.2]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4C1864EC.1EFA3.6434 ; Authuser adityam; 16 Jun 2010 01:45:16 EDT In-Reply-To: <20100616011939.GA3195@khaled-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:59662 Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 02:32:48AM +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote: >> Hello, >> >> since one of the last betas (I guess two weeks ago), a strange problem >> appears in my current document. The first ~10 page are completely fine (i.e. >> as usual) but the following ~20 pages have some kind of a font problem. The >> font looks bolder/grainy when zooming out in Acrobat and also the scrolling >> is pretty slow. After these pages, it's fine again. I don't see any specific >> trigger, there's nothing "special" on these pages. > > Can you check with other PDF readers, it looks like a reader issue to > me. I've got some strange color issues with ConTeXt generated PDFs and > Adobe's reader in the past, namely any page with images would have the > colors brighter than other pages, since the print was fine (and I don't > use Adobe's for screen reading, I didn't bother). Yours might be > something similar. FWIW, I have noticed similar problems with Adobe reader on linux. Pages that contained a png image with transparency appeared duller than other pages. But evince and xpdf display the result correctly. I don't know if the font effects are related or not. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________